November 22, 2005

Men Behaving Badly "When a young man masturbates, exactly how distracted does he get? An experiment performed on students at the University of California, Berkeley aimed to find out.

They recruited 35 students, offering to pay each a small fee for the effort of masturbating while answering a survey. Each student was given a laptop computer with a keypad 'designed to be operated easily using only the non-dominant hand.'" Ahem. The results are pretty interesting, even though not quite surprising to most. Could change approaches to sex ed...? "[Our] study shows that sexual arousal influences people in profound ways," they write. "Efforts at self-control that involve raw willpower are likely to be ineffective." This is a dig at theorists - the ones who advise people to just say no - from experimentalists who are unafraid to get their hands dirty. /obligatory snicker {tab} - oops!

posted by danapiper 18 years ago
  • Ths study is acerote in tht many pepl unvil to chat wgen busy 35df32
  • Best to concentrate on the business at hand, then?
  • Good hard science, that's what I like to see.
  • The panel on the top-left occupied the largest part of the screen, displaying diverse erotic photographs." (picturing a GRA, with a university computer loaded with porn, assembling these photos)
  • Stimulating work! I would like to take a long hard look at the paper. In depth handiwork is always a great pleasure to observe -- I'm sure this would prove to be quite satisfying.
  • Best to concentrate on the business at hand, then? Beats me.
  • I, for one, am glad the university took the time to erect this study. The results are quite titillating and have lubricated my desire for more knowledge.
  • you are all such jerk offs
  • Fes wins
  • What's the prize?
  • Seems like this'd be a hard poll to get firm results out of.
  • The prize
  • I finally got a look at the findings -- it seems that they need to do a little cleaning up.
  • ooops, Argh beat me. Oh, did I say that?
  • I await the results for the Girl version. Perhaps they are still massaging the data.
  • I already know damn well how distracted I get when a young man masturbates.
  • I already know damn well how distracted I get when a young man masturbates. come, come now.
  • Wouldn't it be awesome to have a job masterbating? I'd be so into that.
  • "sexual motivation plays a direct or indirect role in wide-ranging social interactions and in considerable economic activity." Why, I'd say many trascendental, life-changing decisions from males are made under the influence, so to speak... *cough* Their conclusion is somewhat troubling. Are they implying that when certain impulses take over, no amount of willpower will do, in order to quell certain kinds of behaviour? Could this end up being brought up in rape cases?
  • Their conclusion is somewhat troubling perhaps they pulled a boner when writing them?
  • I haven't been able to get a close-up understanding of this study, but my sock puppet has.
  • After I finished giggling I had the same concerns as Flagpole. I hope not, but who knows. I mean someone tried a Twinkie defense once. Or twice. I wonder what that one would be called?
  • I'm saluting the authors of this study. Right now.
  • Screw the participants—so to speak. How do I get to be an observer?
  • A stroke of genius, this experiment.
  • During graduate school, I crunched the statistics for the um... seminal... study on "sex and the internet." It was not nearly as much fun as one might hope.
  • "This study is boring," KamikazeGopher ejaculated.
  • That is to say, "This study is boring!"
  • I always appreciate the hands-on approach. Also what flagpole and danapiper said. A new version of temporary insanity, perhaps.
  • When will these one-handed laptops be available for domestic use? And are they laminated?
  • What I want to know is, how did the idea for this study even come about? "Hey, we're running low on grant money! I know, let's see how distracted guys get while they masturbate!"
  • Plus... why go to the hassle of hiring students and paying them? They could have had a much more ample sample if they just set this up as a contest in some chat rooms. 'Make it to question 50, win an iPod!' or something...
  • A new version of temporary insanity I like to call it the petit mort petit mal. And are they laminated? Or, better yet, vibrate?
  • what a load of old wank Would it stand up in court? "Sorry your honour, I didn't see the speed limit signs, I was furtively cracking one off in rush hour traffic"
  • I'll show you something that stands up in court!
  • I'll show you my cock! Oh, wait...er...I won't, actually. I'm no Glitter.
  • Penetrating analysis of the Glitter case, kitfisto. Heh. I said "anal." Will this type of humor never get old?